It's no laughing matter: A pragmatic study on honorific markers in Cebuano jokes

• Main Authors: Pariña, Jose Cristina M., Abatayo, Junifer
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Cebuano language—Honorific; Philippine wit and humor; Discourse and Text Linguistics; Linguistics; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13535
• Institution: De La Salle University

Philippine languages, just like many European and Asian languages, are characterized with the presence of honorific markers in conversations as a sign of respect and politeness. In line with this, the much-celebrated study of Brown and Gilman (1972 cited in Fasold, 1990) provides a universal V and T...